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Colleen Collord Downing

Cornville,USA

Summary

Tech-savvy innovator with hands-on experience in emerging technologies and passion for continuous improvement. Skilled in identifying opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions. Adept at leveraging new tools and methods to solve problems and enhance productivity. Excels in adapting to fast-paced environments and driving technological advancements.

Possesses versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions.

Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.

Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

Thorough team contributor with strong organizational capabilities. Experienced in handling numerous projects at once while ensuring accuracy. Effective at prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.

Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Recent graduate with foundational knowledge in [Area of study] and hands-on experience gained through academic projects and internships. Demonstrates strong teamwork, problem-solving, and time-management skills. Prepared to start career and make meaningful contributions with commitment and drive.

Knowledgeable [Desired Position] with strong foundation in property sales and client negotiations. Successfully facilitated numerous transactions, ensuring client satisfaction and compliance with industry regulations. Demonstrated excellent communication and problem-solving skills to navigate complex deals and build lasting client relationships.

Well-qualified [Job Title] with proven success in improving operations and solving problems. Highly proficient in building lasting relationships with key decision makers, customers, and team members to further company goals. Ready to leverage training and experience to take on new professional challenges.

Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills. Poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.

Demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments. Eager to contribute to team success and further develop professional skills. Brings positive attitude and commitment to continuous learning and growth.

Innovative technology professional with several years of diverse experience. Skilled in enhancing systems and aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Proven success in leading projects from start to finish and contributing to organizational growth and success.

Results-oriented achiever with proven ability to exceed targets and drive success in fast-paced environments. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on experience to deliver impactful solutions and enhance organizational performance.

Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Property Management and Estate Agent

CMF Wyoming LLC
Chicago, IL
01.2013 - Current
  • Managed and maintained 3 vacation rental resort condos in HI. Re-modeled (3) condos. Managed and coordinated with contractors, vendors, and service providers. Set-up and staged condos for vacation rentals, Listed all condos on VRBO and airbnb websites. Communicated and connected with guests throughout their stay and provided prompt communications about all issues or questions. Acquired licenses, established LLCs and business bank accounts and set-up tax filing schedules, set-up rental structure on VRBO and airbnb websites, including fees, taxes and rents requested, etc., following procedures and writing advertisements to attract customers. Dealt with all rental issues and ran rental business on call 24/7. Maintained super-host status. Member of an HOA task force team to uncover fraud in HI. Worked closely with condo HOA team to resolve a fraud discovery case against the old HOA; the previous HOA absconded with all of the HOA reserves in excess of $100,000.00. Case was solved in the courts of HI.
  • Managed 40 acre farm property in CA. Amended Property Titles; determined water rights and usage; obtained contracting and farming licenses for farm development. Re-designed layout of property to include a new road, new water wells, solar and electricity needs, and farmhouse blueprint for modernization. Worked with legal representatives to establish LLC, bank accounts, and create and negotiate farming lease contracts; created a template for small acreage leases and negotiated terms with potential growers and ranchers on property usage.
  • Estate Management (2012-2016) for six properties and several business entities Executed management duties for properties located in CA and HI. Collected rents, performed audits, created spreadsheets, budget reports, managed bank accounts, paid all taxes and re-established communication with vendors. Provided detailed audit reports to court answer court requests and resolved all issues on trust challenge. Quickly learned CA and HI state regulations and business tax filings—several entities were past-due on tax filings, et al. Learned how to be a sole trustee for estate, both as the legal and healthcare POA, agent.

Vacation Rentals (3), HI and Farm Property Management, CA
CA
01.2013 - Current
  • Established LLC structure for six properties consisting of 5 sub-tier LLCs, each with their own bank accounts, licenses, entity books and tax system in three states.
  • Managed and maintained 3 vacation rental resort condos in HI. Re-modeled (3) condos. Managed and coordinated with contractors, vendors, and service providers. Set-up and staged condos for vacation rentals, Listed all condos on VRBO and airbnb websites. Communicated and connected with guests throughout their stay and provided prompt communications about all issues or questions. Acquired licenses, established LLCs and business bank accounts and set-up tax filing schedules, set-up rental structure on VRBO and airbnb websites, including fees, taxes and rents requested, etc., following procedures and writing advertisements to attract customers. Dealt with all rental issues and ran rental business on call 24/7. Maintained super-host status. Member of an HOA task force team to uncover fraud in HI. Worked closely with condo HOA team to resolve a fraud discovery case against the old HOA; the previous HOA absconded with all of the HOA reserves in excess of $100,000.00. Case was solved in the courts of HI.
  • Managed 40 acre farm property in CA. Amended Property Titles; determined water rights and usage; obtained contracting and farming licenses for farm development. Re-designed layout of property to include a new road, new water wells, solar and electricity needs, and farmhouse blueprint for modernization. Worked with legal representatives to establish LLC, bank accounts, and create and negotiate farming lease contracts; created a template for small acreage leases and negotiated terms with potential growers and ranchers on property usage.

Technical Business & Engineering Consultant, Program Management

Collord Engineering
Carlsbad, CA
01.2009 - Current
  • Providing system engineering solutions for small business communities, including database and website design, and web services
  • Chief e-Commerce Technical Architect for small ecommerce firm. Worked directly with the CTO & assisted process teams. Providing user training, wrote training manuals, established call support center and performed technical pre-sales
  • Designed architecture of complete systems including database layouts, legacy system interfaces, cyber cash, dynamic publishing, XML, ASP, security, and communication methods to meet client requirements for business to consumer and business-to-business OLP applications. Chief Clients: Wherehouse Records, Men’s Warehouse, Hyundai, iXL, RHIC,MedlinAssociates
  • CC++/Java/SQLServer/Oracle/PHP/Sybase/UNIX

Trust Agent

Healthcare management for parent as legal POA in HI
HI
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Quickly assessed health conditions and needs and learn the requirements to become parent in a care facility. Regularly met with medical staff, social workers, lawyers and health professionals. Interviewed facilities and fought for a ‘bed’ in such places, interviewing and presenting my case to the CEOs of these facilities every 3-6 years. Assessed with moving parent into facility and setting up the environment. Established friends with frequent agreements and reporting, sometimes daily when I was away from island. Maintained contact and traveled every 3-6 weeks for visitation. On call 24/7 for parent. Met with social security and insurance providers to maintain proper care and expense. Paid all bills, maintained spreadsheets and handled all financial matters. Provided all documents for the financial audit—trust was challenged.

CCAT Proposal Evaluator

San Diego State University Research Foundation
San Diego, CA
01.2009 - 01.2015
  • CCAT Proposal Evaluator for SDSU Research Foundation, Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) an academic-based technology transfer of technology commercialization and transition collaborative partnership.
  • Www.w-feds.com

Sr. Engineer

X-Feds Inc.
San Diego, CA
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • SOA & Cloud Architecture Consultant to PEO C4I SPAWAR Technical Authority to research, review, conduct SoS SE analysis, create/amend and modernize US Navy IT Standards, DoD stds, Navy Enterprise Standards Profiles, Level of Integration Network Guidance, to include data/IA/cloud computing to affect US Navy Enterprise shore and afloat systems/programs to satisfy DoD wide interoperability (data- and net-centric) requirements; and provide inputs to PEO C4I
  • Www.w-feds.com

COO/Sr. Technical Marketing

TechnoSweat, LLC
Carlsbad, CA
01.2009 - 01.2013
  • Developed action plan to use social media and web widgets to increase exposure. Implemented expansion strategy, with iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps and new product aimed at mobile market. Broadened worldwide brand awareness and facilitated strategic alliances. Results: Concepts were implemented; two new strategic alliances, first page placement on Google.
  • Lead/conduct and produce whitepapers to sell modernization of advanced technology concepts/stds.

Sr. Systems Analyst/Sr. Chief Architect

Northrop Grumman, Inc.
San Diego, CA
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • Transformed and virtualized smart systems for planning, analysis and assessment in intelligence arena, applying semantic and forensic pattern matching technologies, SOA infrastructure, Security arch. and policies for national and international community of interest.
  • Led cross country teams to adapt and transition current practices, technologies, processes and policies to new modern methods. Worked with over 50 DoD agencies and national organization clientele daily.
  • Presented an entire restructure of the technical management organization to combine best fit technical leads to proper roles, authority and eliminated duplicate and out of date teams, through interviews, assessments and observations.
  • Set technical direction, path forward and guidance as well as establish processes and defined community of interest approach to get “buy in” from users, educate users of this cross cultural community in diversity of services, models and data.
  • Assessed, qualified and presented technical feasibility solution sets to define and develop customer’s needs
  • Evaluated customer proposals, selected vendors, and set up process for small business to transform to government providers.
  • C++, Java, XML, TDDP, SPARQL, SOP, ORACLE, J2EE, JMS, ESB, EAI, Spring, Hibernate, Restful Web Services, UML, DODAF, DODAF 1.5, 2.0TOGAF, open source SOAs, Web Services, open standards, security standards, communication stds, pub/sub, open-source SOA, semantics, CCT, active MQ, semantic, dynamic ontologies, security ML/MSIL, messaging, disparate data sources, content services, analytics, nosql…et al
  • Www.northropgrumman.com

Sr. Specialized Project Engineer & Acquisition Specialist

AT&T Inc.
San Diego, CA
01.2005 - 01.2008
  • Sr Specialized Project Engineer Data Strategist/SOA Lead across all Navy Acquisition Agency product lines. (PEO SPA. PMW120 ILO/ISR & METOC)
  • Perform budget and cost analysis and assess risk, technical evaluations, data architecture, service architecture, ontology, taxonomy, schemas, net-centric pub/sub standards and processes associated with DoD transformation needs/directives/standards.
  • Consult, collaborate, coordinate with Chief of Staff, Joint DoD Services/National and Federal Agencies on technical strategy fulfillment of the warfighter needs, in the areas of data fusion, data replication, data, applications and context/pub/sub, vcs.
  • Understand/align and net-centricity requirements, show deficiencies and illustrate possible solutions.
  • Performed analysis and offered re-design initiatives and solutions that would reduce risk, improve funding and attract more buy-in from competing agencies.
  • Instilled creative business modeling through illustration of technical re-hash of business models and ability to cross talk with closed systems and provide information bypassing archaic communication sharing methods.
  • Evaluated proposals, selected vendors, risk assessment and acquisition process fulfillment. (ORACLE 10/11, JAVA, C++, OWL, RDF, SWRL, ESB, XML, SQL, SPARQL, BPMN et al.)
  • Www.att.com

Program Manager & Acquisition Specialist

Harris Corp.
Long Beach, CA
01.2004 - 01.2005
  • Managed team of 25 on both coasts for delivery of $25 million portion of Future Combat Systems US Army Network/Signal Communications Infrastructure.
  • Direct report to Director of Army business operations. Collaborated with Prime contractor PMs, US Army Customer PM, US Army Colonel for Ft. Gordon Signal Core, B&D Vice Presidents and Directors for Harris Corporation.
  • Reversed customer’s opinion by controlling engineering resources and taking a pro-active PM stance. Results: maintained contract status quo and successfully negotiated (3x) early turn-on funding, in anticipating of entire FCS program stretch.
  • Pro-active in establishing relationships and obtaining permission to visit FCS US Army customer site. Key player in developing spectrum management center of excellence business case.
  • Established Harris contract relationship with Army contractor and SAMS Lab team, utilized Melbourne resources; created a winning team environment between CA/FL offices. (JTM, SCA, JTRS, WNT-T, WNW, SRW, JCA ORBs et al.)
  • Www.harris.com

Sr. Engineer Consultant

Robert Half International Inc.
La Jolla, CA
01.1998 - 01.2000
  • Guided and instructed engineering management in computer design techniques and presented solutions to overhaul out-of-date military aircraft maintenance system. Results: improved product-to-market time. Chief Clients: Com Global Inc., WPDS Inc.
  • Www.roberthalftechnology.com
  • Uniface, CC++/Cobal/Java/Assembler/Motif/Fortran/Jovial SYBASE,JSODE stds

Program Manager

Bluebird Systems
Carlsbad, CA
01.1998 - 01.1998
  • Directed product turnaround; designed, organized and implemented customer service/technical support processes.
  • Established software department; recruited, hired and trained personnel.
  • Replaced out of date management and engineering processes. Improved overall financial performance without appropriated fund support; reduced employee turnover; upgraded image.
  • Opened communication channels and coordinated the operations between engineering, marketing and customer support.
  • Coordinated with marketing the CEO and CFO to solve customer relationship problems. Wrote contract vehicles.
  • Held contract negotiations with customers, collected outstanding account receivable, and received follow-on contracts.
  • Results: Maintain existing accounts and increase market share; improve quality and timeliness of product releases.
  • IBM AIX, Windows O/S, CC++/Basic/Powerpoint/ SQL Server,Informix

Software Manger/Sr. (Neural Net) Lead Engineer

GDE Systems
San Diego, CA
01.1996 - 01.1997
  • Guided and instructed engineering mgmt. in CORBA; Designed CORBA architecture for satellite imagery products.
  • Designed and developed the Ultimate Geo-Positioning Capability for satellite imagery product software.
  • Presented an architectural re-design of system, replacing aging technology to yield a modern and competitive system. Became/Gained expertise on a huge satellite imagery neural network system. (Ada/CC++/Motif/Oracle,SunSolaris,SGI IRIX O/S,Corba, Neural Networks, JAVA)

Software Manager

Horizons Technology Inc.
San Diego, CA
01.1995 - 01.1996
  • Created and controlled and negotiated budgets; monitored quality controls and financial performance.
  • Performed a detailed systems analysis of General Instrument’s cable TV satellite Uplink Control system including encryption methods, bandwidth management and satellite communications. (OOA/CC++/Oracle/OpenGL/Motif,UNIX SunSolaris,DEC)

Project Manger/Task Manger/Proposal lead/SEI Auditor

SAIC Corporation
San Diego, CA
01.1991 - 01.1995
  • Managed subcontractor, customer and software team interactions on a 1 million dollar submarine communication system
  • Led subcontractor and development team portion of a 25 million dollar Navy project.
  • Created and controlled budgets and negotiated financials; monitored quality controls and financial performance.
  • Established and met DoD 2167 engineering and acquisition standards, and CMM SEI III milestones.
  • Negotiated and secured funding for the projects; provided basis of estimates for follow-on contract proposals.
  • Designed and developed applications, message handling system and produced detailed design documents.
  • Wrote the key technical portion of a $10 million proposal.
  • Planned and worked on software solutions for several war-fighter needs across several domains.
  • Conducted SEI audit; defined and implemented SEI compliant procedures and processes for major projects.
  • Www.saic.com

Education

B.A. - Economics

University of California At Santa Barbara

Skills

  • 25 years of extensive Value-Added Technical Management and System/Software Engineering expertise—Visionary Leader, and Transition Manager Significant systems architectural experience on large data intensive, service oriented and communication systems specializing in real-time computing intelligence scenarios and needs System engineering expertise in SOA, semantics, data strategy, ontologies, security, enterprise architecture and design Solid background in team leadership, bringing teams together and result-driven program management; applying best practices in organization development and change Analytical, creative, flexible thinker Win-win attitude Expertise at implementing process improvements and procedures, specializing in CM, QA and test; policy & governance SEI Auditor Broad background in technical pre-sales, publish speaking, teaching and mentoring Skilled at writing winning proposals and contract management Risk management expertise Liaison expertise Master at requirements analysis and developing good rapport with management, customers, and teams achieving products that exceed customer’s expectations and increase profitability Past Clearances: TS SCI, SECRET, et al
  • Property inspections
  • Buyer representation
  • Property management
  • Contract drafting
  • Property valuation

Timeline

Property Management and Estate Agent

CMF Wyoming LLC
01.2013 - Current

Vacation Rentals (3), HI and Farm Property Management, CA
01.2013 - Current

Trust Agent

Healthcare management for parent as legal POA in HI
01.2012 - 01.2016

Sr. Engineer

X-Feds Inc.
01.2012 - 01.2013

Technical Business & Engineering Consultant, Program Management

Collord Engineering
01.2009 - Current

CCAT Proposal Evaluator

San Diego State University Research Foundation
01.2009 - 01.2015

COO/Sr. Technical Marketing

TechnoSweat, LLC
01.2009 - 01.2013

Sr. Systems Analyst/Sr. Chief Architect

Northrop Grumman, Inc.
01.2008 - 01.2009

Sr. Specialized Project Engineer & Acquisition Specialist

AT&T Inc.
01.2005 - 01.2008

Program Manager & Acquisition Specialist

Harris Corp.
01.2004 - 01.2005

Sr. Engineer Consultant

Robert Half International Inc.
01.1998 - 01.2000

Program Manager

Bluebird Systems
01.1998 - 01.1998

Software Manger/Sr. (Neural Net) Lead Engineer

GDE Systems
01.1996 - 01.1997

Software Manager

Horizons Technology Inc.
01.1995 - 01.1996

Project Manger/Task Manger/Proposal lead/SEI Auditor

SAIC Corporation
01.1991 - 01.1995

B.A. - Economics

University of California At Santa Barbara
Colleen Collord Downing